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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN'S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
PE PIUS PLEADS FDR
CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY
Archbishop Curley, its Chan
cellor, Also Asks Faithful
to Aid Institution.
Washington, D. C.—The signifi
cance of the fact that the first
Apostolic letter to American Cath
olics addressed by Pope Pius XI.
himself one of the most famous of
modern scholars, should have for its
subject the Catholic University, is
stressed by the Most llcv. Michael
J. Curley, Archbishop of Baltimore
and Chancellor of the University, in
a communication addressed to the
hiirachry of the United States in
behalf of the annual collection for
that institution, which is to he tak
en up on the first Sunday of Ad
vent.
•'A sense of common good, of
common responsibility and common
duty, permeates this great pontifi
cal document,” says Archbishop Cur-
icy in referring to His Holiness’
letter, 'Than which no more definite
utterance on Catholic higher educa-
l.on has come from the Chair of
Peter.”
the chancellor points out that the
pope’s letter indicates that the rapid
development of the university will
accomplish three tilings:
"The best among your clergy and
laity will be so educated and duly
provided with knowledge that they
will prove a credit to the church,
and will he able to explain and up
hold the Catholic faith.
“Some growth of its annual reve
nue is immediately needed by the
university. Its hundred professors,
most of them Catholic laymen with
wives and families, have a right to
some increase of their modest sala
ries. The expenses of heat and
light, the upkeep of the beautiful
grounds and buildings, the constant
equipment of laboratories and tlie
library, call for heavy expenditure,
of which the students can meet
only a part. New buildings are de
manded by the great growth of llie
last ten years. If every adult Cath
olic will make annually a generous
offering to the university collection,
our immediate needs will be cared
for and our minds left free to plan
efficiently that development of the
university which the Holy Fathci
suggests in his paternal letter to our
American Catholic bishops.”
The letter contains an invocation
of Mary Immaculate, Scat of Wis
dom, and Patroness of the univer
sity. to move the hearts of the
faithful to rally to the support of
the university.
French Priest Invents Appliance
Which Reveals Otis and Minerals
I’ari3.—A remarkable discovery
which, it is said, will make it pos
sible to locate deposits of oil and
minerals, has just been made by a
priest, Canon Estines, of Toulouse.
The method, which has now been
perfected afier long and patient re
search, will make it possible to de
termine with a precision hitherto
impossible, the existence and im
portance cf deposits of petroleum
and minerals. The method is bas
ed on an application of the princi
ples of .radio-activity and the utili
zation of this phenomenon by
means of an electrical apparatus
especially adapted for this kind of
research.
A vague allusion of the discovery
was made in a Review of Toulouse
and in a small newspaper publish
ed in Tarbes. Immediately a re
porter was sent from one of the
big Paris dailies, one which is legi
timately classed as anti-clerical, bv
the way, to obtain more detailed in
formation, and it is through the
publication of his articles that the
name of Canon Estines has now be
come famous in F'rance.
Canon Estines Confirms Invention.
Canon Estines is 72 years of age.
Licentiate in physical sciences and
Mathematics, he was for some time
professor of science in the colleg
of Polignan (Department of Haute-
Garonne). He is a pupil of M. Saba
tier, winner of the Nobel prize in
Physics, the Dean of the Faculty
of Sciences of Toulouse.
In his interview with the repre
sentatives of Hie Paris newspaper he
said:
“1 am embarrassed that so much
attention should he paid me before
I have won definite success. Rut 1
hope that' in 1923 the value of my
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Paris—Among <hc sick .persons
who visited Lourdes during the last
few weeks was a young Jew, who
while there became converted, was
baptized and made his First Holy
Communion.
Issac Levi Snitkivski, is a teacher
He was born in Bessarabian and
studied to he a rabbi. Then he ap
peared to he attracted by the
Orthodox faith. At this stage his
family, sent him to America, passing
him off as the son of a Jew living in
the U. S. After remaining four
years in America, Issac Snitkivski
ieft f.ou Bessarabia, hut his family
gave him a very cold welcome and
lie departed for Paris, lie finally
ended by enlisting in the Foreign
Legion, in Algeria. While stationed
in Morocco he made the acquaint
ance of a Franciscan, the chaplain
of the Legion, and with him he
studied many problems of the
Christian faith. The desire to dis
cover after his return to Paris, and
he often went to consult the priests
in the parish in which he was living.
Having become the victim of lung
trouble he managed to go to Lour
des, after many vain attempts ob
taining a place in a hospital there,
he had said: “If I. am cured 1 shall
lie converted.”
While at Lourdes he attended
many of the ceremonies of one of
the big pilgrimages and one day,
after the procession of the Blessed
Sacament, he returned to the hospi
tal deeply moved, saying: “No, it is
for me,to ask the Virgin for a sign,
1 shall first become a convert. The
Virgin may then treat me as she
pleases.”
After receiving a supplement of
teligious instruction, Isaac Levi
Snitkivski was baptised in the chapel
of the Bernadette Hospital, taking
the names of Marie Bernard. His
godmother was the Superior of the
Hospital, and his godfather, M. Rill-
nrtdc Verneuil, deputy of the De
partment of Aisne in the French
Chamber, who happened to be in
Lourdes serving as a volunteer
stretcher-bearer.
On the morning after his baptism,
Snitkivski received his First Holy
Communion, kneeling between his
godmother and his godfather.
discovery will be confirmed by the
drilling of oil wells in France.”
How did you come to study and
experiment with the search for oil?”
“After the discovery of radium
by M. and Mine. Curie, I was struck,
in 1905, by the statement by a
British physicist that “all metals
radiate.’ I began to study radio
activity and its effects, and in 1909
I began my experiments by a cam
paign of 40 days in the C.evcnn
mountains. At the end of twelve
years of study and groping, having
twice been stopped by discourage
ment, I finally succeeded in perfect
ing my apparatus toward the end
of 1921.”
“What kind of information can
you give to a prospector today?”
“I can indicate, lo within one
meter, the depth of a deposit of
mineral or oil. Do not be surpris
ed. This is a new science the pro
cesses of which has no equivalent
in electricity, and permit us to as
certain the depth of a deposit.”
“Will you have your appartus pa
tented? Can you tell us anything
about them?”
“Anyone who has studied radio
activity can use my appartus, others
can not. However, I am guarding
ray secret. It is not my intention
to obtain a patent or to negotiate
with any firm or company. I can
satisfy your curiousity by saying
I hat my apparatus weighs not less
than 150 kilogrammes and that it
function best between two and seven
o’clock in the morning.”
Oil in Pyrenees
Canon Estines mentioned several
points in the Pyrenees where he
claims oil will he found. He af
firms that the oil in the Limagnc
province and in. Auvergne is only
a small deposit, of little value. He
also reports the presence of oil
in Guipuzcoa, Spain, where no
Spanish geologist ever suspected its
presence.
_ 'Die priest inventor is certain that
Prance will one day have enough
oil lo supply tier own needs and
more.
Canon Estines conducted his re
search work entirely alone, devoting
all his personal resources to the
task. He wishes to present his in
vention to his country as soon as
the first oil well has been sunk suc
cessfully in the Pyrenees.
Washington, D. C.—A bill estab
lishing national marriage and di
vorce regulations is being prepared
for introduction in the next congress
according to an announcement made
here by the General Federation of
Women’s Clubs.
The bill would make marriage
more difficult and would permit di
vorce on one of five grounds: infide-
dity, incurable insanity, abandond-
ment for one year, cruel and in
human treatment, or conviction of an
infamous crime. Once granted, a di
vorce would be granted in every
stale, hut neither party would be
permitted to remarry until one year
after the interlocutory decree was
granted. The bill would provide that
applications for marriage licenses
be posted two weeks previous to the
ceremony’.
Mrs. Edward Franklin White, de
puty attorney general of Indiana, has
been authorized to draft the hill
and a resolution amending the Con
stitution of the United States, if
necessary, to make possible the pro
posed federal marital law.
CORNERSTONE LAID AT
LOYOLA OF BALTIMORE
VIENNESE HONOR CATHOLIC
POET.
Vienna—The seventecntietli birth
day anniversary of Dr. Richard von
Kralik, noted poet, philosopher, his
torian and musician was made oc
casion for great festivities by the
Catholics of Vienna. On his seven
tieth birthday, a great crowd assemb
led at his home at Holding, one of
the Vienna districts ,and hailed him
as their leader. In the crowd were
scores of students, scientists hnd in
tellectuals, members of the school
of Catholic literary men and esth
etes he has founded. Other cele
brations are being prepared.
Baltimore—The cornerstone of the
new Science Building the first unit
of a $1,000,000 expansion of Loyola
University, was laid yesterday. Arch
bishop Curley blessed the corner
stone and delivered a short address
upon the mission of Catholic pri
mary and high schools in the Catho
lic educational field.
James A. Flaherty, supreme knight
of the Knights of Colubus, who de
livered the principal address, refer
red to the occasion as “another con
clusive proof that the Catholic
church is no harrier to science and
learning.” The Science Building is
to he of brick in the Gothic style
and will cost appromixately $150,-
000. It was endowed by George C.
Jenkins.
CATHOLIC EXECUTIVE DEAD
New York.—Funeral services for
the late Frank S. Gannon, who died
here last week, were held on Satur
day from St. Peter’s Church, New
Brighton, Staten Island. Mr. Gan
non who was regarded as one of
the ablest railroad executives in the
United States, was formerly presi
dent of the Norfolk and Southern
Railway Company. He was a form
er president of the Catholic Club
of New York, of which he was a
member for thirty years. He was
also a member of the Amcrican-Irish
Historical Society and the Society
of the Friendly Sons of St- Patrick.
One of Mr. Gannon's sons, Rev.
Robert I. Gannqn, S. J., is a mem
ber of the faculty of Fordham Uni
versity.
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